Improvement in paper-ruling machines



J. 8: W. A. MGADAMS. Paper-Ruling Machine.

No. 206,809. Patented Aug. 6.187

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` JOHN MCADAMS AND WILLIAM A. MGADAMS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-RULING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,809, dated August6, 1878; application filed November 22, 1877.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J oHN MoADAMs and WILLIAM A. MCADAMS, of the cityof Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Ruling Machines, of whichthe following is a descriptiomreference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention more particularly relates to ruling-machines in which thepaper, after it has been ruled by one set of pens with parallel linesrunning in one direction, is passed by one conveyer to anothei1Veonveyer arranged to occupy a cross or right-angled position relativelyto the first conveyer, and serving to conduct the paper to another setof pens arranged to rule the paper with parallel lines at right anglesto the former ruling.

The invention consists in certain combinations of devices whereby, whenthe paper is being transferred from one set of ruling-pens to another,it is not only supported on both of its opposite margins, but provisionis made for adjusting the transferring devices to suit different widthsof paper.

The invention also consists in a feed board or table for sheets of paperlaid thereon, composed of asolid or close base and a perforated orreticulated upper covering or top surface, constituting, in connectionwith the solid or close base, a series of air-cups, closed at theirbottoms but open at their tops, whereby, while the perforated uppercovering, when made of a separate piece or sheet, is restrained fromspringing, the perforations in it form air-cells, which prevent theformation of a vacuum beneath the paper, and thereby reduce resistanceto the feed without having recourse to a forced current or blast throughthe perforations in the feeding-surface.

This last part of the invention is equally applicable to ruling-machinesin which the ruling with parallel lines is in a single direction only.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan of across-ruling machine having our invention applied; Fig. 2, alongitudinal vertical section of the same on the line .fr x, and Fig. 3a transverse vertical section thereof ou the line y y. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of a detail, in part, connected with thesheet-transferring devices; and Fig. 5, a sectional elevation on theline z z, in illustration of the application of the fountain to theinking-trough from which the pens draw their supply.

A is the feeding board, table, or surface, along or over which thesheets to be ruled are fed one by one from a pile to the first con-Veyer, B, which conducts the sheets in snccession to the first set ofruling-pens and inking apparatus connected with. said pens, to rule thepaper with parallel lines in one direction. From these pens and inkin gapparatus (neither of which are shown in the drawings) each sheet thusruled in one direction passes to another endless conveyer, C, arrangedto travel in the same direction as the conveyer B. Each sheet is fedover the table A by the hand of the operator as he stands at one side ofsaid table, opposite an adjustable guide, b, which serves to direct oneedge of the paper and give to the sheet its proper course and position.In thus manipulating the sheet over said feeding table or surface fromone side of the latter, the hand of the operator naturally makes anupward sweep from the front toward the back of the table to pass thesheet to the conveyer B; and to facilitate this action and insure theproper pressure of the hand on the sheet till it passes to the conveyer,the feed board, table, or surface A is set inclining npward from itsfront to its back.

Furthermore, the feeding table or board is constructed with a perforatedor reticulatcd upper surface, (see Fig. 4,) whereby the formation of avacuum beneath theshect being fed over the table is prevented, thusdoing away with much resistance to the feed. This is effected withouthaving recourse to a forced blast or current of air through thereticulated upper surface of said feed-board, and without destroying thesolidityor closeness of the feedboard itself, by constructing said boardor table of a solid or close base and perforated upper covering or top,which, when of a separate piece or sheet, is prevented from springing bythe base, and in connection with the latter forms a series of air cupsor cells, open at their tops but closed at their bottoms, an d in whichthe air is conflued by the sheets.

To change the direction of the motion for ruling at right angles, theconveyer C is constructed, and has combined with it transferringdevices, substantially as follows: The conveyer C, which may be composedof endless strings, tapes, or one or more aprons, is arranged to runover or around a driving-roller, c, at its end nearest to the conveyerB, and over or around a free roller, 1, at its opposite end, and fromthence back to and around an adjustable lower \roller, f, up to thedrivingroller c. This conveyer C may be denominated the upper one of apair of similarly-traveling eonveycrs, t) l), the latter, l), of which(that may also be composed of strings, tapes, or one or more aprons)passes around the drivingroller c, under the roller d, through orbetween one, g, of a pair of parallel transverse belts, g h, to andaround a roller, It, which is arranged at any desired distance t'rom theroller d, beyond the conveyer and immediately in advance ot' thecross-belt l1. The conveyer l), the upper traveln surface ot` whichoccupies alower position to the upper traveling surface of the conveyerC, serves` to conduct the sheet, after or while it is delivered bytheconveyer till its two edges rest on the cross traveling` belts 1/ l1,which change the direction in the motion ot' thc sheet', for rulingitatright angles to the tbrmer ruling, by conveying it to a second set ot`pelis and inking apparatus, ll, or rather to a conveyer, (l, leadingthereto. One and the same roller. I, ot` this last-named conveyer drivesboth endless cross-belts g l1.

To adapt the transverse belts g h to dii'erentsized sheets or widths olpaper, the belt y is made adjustable, toward or from the belt la. 'lothis end said belt y, which runs at its one end round the roller I oftheconveyer (l, aml is capable ot` being slid along the same, is earried atits opposite eml by a pulley, m, which is supported by an adjustablecarriage, or one ot a pair ot' eolnbined adjustable standards, I Thiscarriage, which is adjustable in direction of the length ot' theconveyer not only earries the pulley' m ot' the belt y, lult also theroller d, round which the conveyer passes, so that the rollerd willalways have the same close relation to the belt 1/ under all adjustmentsof the latter. As, however, in adjusting the carriage 1 backward orforward, a lengthening or shortening of' the conveyer takes place. whichit is necessary to provide for, the roller f is made adjustable up anddown to letI out or take up the strings, tapes, or belts of saidconveyer, thus keeping the conveyer at a uniform stretch in alladjustments of the carriage I.

The inking apparatus has the ink maintained at a uniform level in itspan or trough n by the combination with said trough of a birdfountain,J, which supplies the ink to the trough. By this combination the supplyof ink to the ruling-pens rfrom the pan or trough n, by a cloth or othersuitable conductor, s, is uniform and the pens never become dry throughneglect to keep up a supply of ink in the pan or trough, nor need thepens be raised from the paper when the machine stops.

'hat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. The combination of the transverse belt g and its pulley m, the rollerd of the conveyer C, which conducts the sheet t0 said belt, and theadjustable carriage I, supporting said pulley and said roller, wherebyprovision is made for adjusting said belt and said roller withoutchanging their relations, to adapt the machine to different widths otsheets, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the adjustable pulley m of the belt g, and theadjustable roller d of the conveyer l, ofthe adjustable rollerf and theupper roller, c, whereby provision is made, by letting out or takingupthe strings, tapes, or aprons ot' which the conveyer (l is composed, tocompensate for the adjustment ofthe pulley m and roller d, essentiallyas dcscribed.

3. Thecombination,withtheupperconveyer, (l, of the under eonveyelyl),arranged to ex;` tend beyond the delivering end of theconveyer and thetransverse belts g h, substantially as specified.

4. A feed board or table for feeding sheets ot paper, composed of asolid or close base and a pert'orated or reticulated upper covering ortop surface. having the perforations in it closed at their bottoms bysaid base, essentially as and for the purpose or purposes described.

JOHN MCADAMS. 'ILLIAM A. MPADANS.

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